Hi,
I've been fighting with this system most of the weekend. The problem i'm running into is booting from a usb hd. The livecd detects it just fine.
First time through I built the kernel manually and stuck pretty close to the install.txt for partitioning, etc. The major difference of course is that my drive shows up as /dev/sda (scsi 0,0,0). And the built-in drive (s-ata) shows up as sdb on scsi 2,0,0. I'm running an Asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard. 2004.2 using the smp kernel (2.6.7r11) panics when net-setup is run. So I did the install using gentoo (2.4.26r6) but built 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (gentoo-dev-sources). I've answered a lot of my own questions with web searches (initrd linuxrc script needs to be modified to rescan the scsi bus after usb drivers load). But being a newbie I haven't been able to figure out how to get into initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 to edit the script.
Any assistance would be appreciated! BTW, since the livecd boot works and detects the drive, why doesn't the initrd generated by genkernel do the same? Is this a feature that can be included in a future release? Optionally, where are the files that genkernel uses to build the initrd in the first place? Can I edit those prior to running genkernel initrd?
Thanks!
Cecil Whitley
I've been fighting with this system most of the weekend. The problem i'm running into is booting from a usb hd. The livecd detects it just fine.
First time through I built the kernel manually and stuck pretty close to the install.txt for partitioning, etc. The major difference of course is that my drive shows up as /dev/sda (scsi 0,0,0). And the built-in drive (s-ata) shows up as sdb on scsi 2,0,0. I'm running an Asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard. 2004.2 using the smp kernel (2.6.7r11) panics when net-setup is run. So I did the install using gentoo (2.4.26r6) but built 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (gentoo-dev-sources). I've answered a lot of my own questions with web searches (initrd linuxrc script needs to be modified to rescan the scsi bus after usb drivers load). But being a newbie I haven't been able to figure out how to get into initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 to edit the script.
Any assistance would be appreciated! BTW, since the livecd boot works and detects the drive, why doesn't the initrd generated by genkernel do the same? Is this a feature that can be included in a future release? Optionally, where are the files that genkernel uses to build the initrd in the first place? Can I edit those prior to running genkernel initrd?
Thanks!
Cecil Whitley